Successful people in their respective fields are always knowledgeable and excellently skillful. They are very much thorough with the in and out of the area, they belong to. They hold tremendous expertise over the subjects, they deal with. Through the power of knowledge, they succeed to win people’s respect and trust and thus become eminent. They take all measures to manage their career and business effectively. This quality increases their courage and enables them to market their ability efficiently. They remain willing to learn new things and show least reservations to changes. This approach erects them at a place where they sharpen their knowledge.
Success may be intrinsic or extrinsic depending on the circumstances prevailed. Intrinsic success is measured by a magnitude of job / career satisfaction, fulfillment of wishes and self worth; whereas extrinsic success relates to social status-quo, income level, professional hierarchy, employability, etc. A well known psychologist Nikas Bozioneles very strongly expresses the relationship of five big personality factors with a successful career. Personality and behaviour of a person is influenced by five major elements which are known as 5 big personality traits. They are – Neuroticism, Extroversion, Openness, Agreeableness, and Conscientiousness. These personality traits play a vital role in accomplishing a task successfully in anyone’s life
Neuroticism represents anxiety, anger, sadness, etc., which makes a person tensed and with a tensed mind, he is unable to concentrate on any activity given to him to deal with. For a successful career, one has to overcome the negative aspects of neuroticism. However, even in the state of tensed mind, if you are able to control and calm down your anger, anxiety and bitterness, your nervousness will get evaporated and the decision making probability will be enhanced automatically. The more you are able to control the negative side of neuroticism, the more you will be matured and balanced. You will be able to take correct decisions at the workplace with the help of a stable mind.
Extroversion is a state of mind which resembles to positive outlook. With this frame of mind, one can have a constructive viewpoint towards each and every responsibility he is assigned to. The rate of success will always be more. Positive outlook makes you enthusiastic towards the job entrusted to you. This will also make you social, assertive and expressive. All your assignments will reflect these qualities.
Openness is a quality that renders a person flexibility to embrace changes without much reluctance in life. He considers changes as opportunities, and with a consciousness mind; he takes advantage of the changes to achieve progress. Openness distracts short sightress, complexity of the behavioural pattern. These qualities induce the person’s ability to accept any change.
Agreeableness is also a great personality factor. This is an attitude which keeps a person agreeable to other’s opinion and thoughts. People having this quality generally tend to agree to others’ action plans, sacrificing their own priorities. In today’s growth oriented strategy of modern management, if you apply this personality trait, you will be more on advantageous path. Agreeableness will drive you to the solution of a complex problem without which growth of any business is next to impossible. If you show the personality trait opposite to agreeableness, the effect will be detrimental to your work environment. It is quite common that the people who would like to deal with you would usually prefer the quality of agreeableness in you. Hence, it is better to show the quality of agreeableness in all your business deals.
The last personality factor of “Big Five” is conscientiousness. This quality gives the person an ability to practice self discipline. It also makes a person more dutiful and a believer of a goal oriented approach. This type of person thinks immensely before acting. He does not like irrational behaviour and would avoid indulging into an impulsive action. He does not give importance to gratification. He firmly sticks to the rules, regulations and set principles and takes the utmost care in planning, organizing and prioritizing any activity.
The three out of five personality factors i.e. Extroversion, Neuroticism and Conscientiousness play a very effective role in successful performance of an individual. Extroversion and conscientiousness create a desire in a person to achieve target. May be this success is an extrinsic type. Extroversion creates a feeling of sociability, mingling ability and a quality of planning in a person. This quality when coupled with conscientiousness gives rise to the importance of self discipline, and makes the person more determined towards the set targets; no matter how hard it could be.
On the contrary, neurotic people are more anxious whose confidence level is usually very low; they are less achiever. This personality factor represents a negative trait, but when coupled with other personality factors, it produces positive results. Neuroticism reflects negativity with regard to both intrinsic and extrinsic type of success. Agreeableness scores positively to intrinsic success. People who have inherent agreeableness show progress tendency in their career and they are complacent with their jobs. Their self worth value is quite high in the society.
People who are eager to accept new challenges and who keep on open approach to concentrate on the constructive feedback of others remain successful in their career. They are more confident, self motivated and content with their life, career and their relationship with others. On the contrary, people who adopt a narrow and closed path of career are vulnerable to the intrinsic success due to low content of openness factor.
If you have an openness personality factor, you will be more successful in your career and will be able to develop excellent relationship with your peers and colleagues as well as with your family, relatives and friends. This personality trait will lead you to a path of development whereby you will be able to find out a real definition of success.
All above “big five” personality factors are inter dependent to each other. Neuroticism prima-facie may look to be a negative trait, but agreeableness and openness pacifies the negative impact thereof. However, neuroticism equally plays a tremendous role in the achievement of success in life.
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